WE live in an old house with long passages, so when we intend to pass
an afternoon or evening in a back room, somebody usually locks and
bolts the front door against sneak-thieves.
More times than we can count we have heard someone open and close the
front door, rattle his stick into the hall-stand, and walk up the
passage into the drawing-room.
Yet, on going to see, we have found no one in the house and the door
locked and bolted just as we had left it. This has occurred both in
the afternoon and evening.
Many times, also, anyone awake in the night has heard someone open the
bathroom door, walk along the upstairs passage and go downstairs.
Again, “no one.”
Both these phenomena have been experienced by visitors, some of whom
have proved decidedly nervous as a consequence; but, as nothing ever
follows the sounds, we do not worry, and we have lived through them
for ten years.